Not finished decorating this space yet. Am waiting for my manual to arrive and Mike to return home from vacation. It’s not fair to bug the boy about the missing links on my blogroll or how to get my stars back while he’s relaxed and away from home and work. The reason all this remodeling is happening is because of a new feature I want to build into a new page, so it will all be worth it in the end.
Still working on the magazine pitches. My horoscopes this month all say that a long-held dream is going to die during the lunar eclipse at the end of the month. I wonder which one? I’ve been wanting to drop something from my dream sack so I can focus more intently on things that have a hope of coming true. So what will be the thing to go? Teaching? Something with YWYS? Magazine writing? Publishing my novels? I don’t know, but it’ll be interesting to see what happens.
This morning I skimmed a few of the magazines I bought last week and found two that are perfect to pitch a couple of ideas. I like to look through all the articles and try to find a space where my idea would fit. It could be a regular feature space, written by a different freelancer every month. How do I know its a freelance written space? I check the masthead. Then I try to guess which editor might run that section of the magazine and send a compelling, perfectly written pitch to her.
I’ve got a new group of writing students this morning at 10, so I didn’t get even one of the two pitches completed. I did a lot of prep work, however. My interview with Ron Geraci is proving invaluable as far as insight into what editors want from freelancers. I have used his advice over and over to teach others and educate myself.
Garage Band is a mess right now and I apologize. That’s also part of the master plan, to organize all my archives, and do something with GB so that the interviews are all easily accessible. Meanwhile, I have to close now and make myself pretty for the people.
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